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Also Known As Giovanni Ponti
Born November 18, 1891 • Milan • Italy • Italy
Died September 15, 1979 (aged 87) • Milan
Rossi, Aldo: Quartier Schützenstrasse
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John Claudius Loudon
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Arne Jacobsen, 1960
Arne Jacobsen
Danish architect
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian revolutionary
Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
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Lina Bo Bardi: Art Museum of São Paulo
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Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
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Italo Calvino
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Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Italian architect
Bruce Graham
American architect
Martin Roche
American architect
Charlotte Endymion Porter
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan
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Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
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Imogen Cunningham: photograph of Alfred Stieglitz
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
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I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
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R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
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